To:N. P. GORBUNOV

Published:First published inPravdaNo. 92, April 22, 1926.

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ComradeGorbunov,

ThisBonch-Bruyevich (no relation, only has the same
surname as V. D. Bonch-Bruyevich) is by all accounts avery outstandinginventor. The matter isof immense
importance(a newspaper without paper and without wires,
for with a loudspeaker and with the receiver which
Bonch-Bruyevich has developed in such a way that it will be easy
for us to producehundredsof receivers, all Russia will
be able to hear a newspaper read in Moscow).

Iparticularly ask you:

(1)tofollow up this matter specially,calling in
Ostryakovandtelephoning Nizhni,

(2)toget the attached draft decreespeedilythrough
the Narrow Council. If unanimity cannot be reached quickly,
be sure to prepare it for the Full Council of People’s
Commissars for Tuesday,

(3)toinform me twice a month on theprogressof the
work.[1]

[1]Theletter was written on a memorandum which P. A. Ostryakov,
construction chief of the first radio-telephone station in Moscow,
sent to Lenin on January 26, 1921. Ostryakov reported that he
was encountering difficulties and asked Lenin to help remove them
and endorse the decree Ostryakov had drafted.

OnJanuary 27, 1921 the C.P.C. passed a decree on organising
full-scale radio-telephone construction. It instructed the People’s
Commissariat of Posts and Telegraphs to build stations for
two-way radio-telephone communication in Moscow and other centres.

Bonch-Bruyevich,M. A.(1888–1940)—outstanding Soviet radio
engineer. In 1916–19 he did research on electronic valves. In 1918
ho took charge of the Nizhni-Novgorod Radio Laboratory.